190 research outputs found
Multidisciplinary perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the law
This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI. As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
The regulation of digital platforms: the case of pagoPA
How can EU regulation affect innovation. Digital revolution: How big data have changed the world and the legal landscape. The regulation of digital platforms in Europe. Digital revolution: How distributed ledger technologies are changing the world and the legal landscape. Regulation of digital payments: the case of pagopa
The cloud sovereignty nexus: How the European Union seeks to reverse strategic dependencies in its digital ecosystem
How does the European Union balance the need to migrate data to the cloud with the imperative of reducing its dependence on foreign cloud providers? Cloud computing is a critical technology for the competitiveness of the European Union (EU) in the digital economy. This paper argues that the EU is adopting a host of regulatory requirements and industrial policy tools—which fall under the umbrella term of ‘data sovereignty’—not only to protect the confidentiality of European data, but also to counter the dominance of US vendors in the European cloud market. To demonstrate how data sovereignty principles are woven into current EU policy initiatives, the paper presents two case studies: Gaia-X and the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge, and Cloud. Linking data sovereignty to the lack of a competitive European cloud ecosystem sheds light on the strategic dimension of cloud computing in a way that treating them separately would not do
System dynamics approach for digital transformation and complex policy design for the postal sector in Southern Africa
The key motivation of the study was to explore and enlarge understanding of the factors that inhibit and drive the performance of the postal sector in a dynamic setting in the context of Southern Africa. This study was prompted by the unsatisfactory performance of the postal sector in Southern Africa as measured by the Integrated Index on Postal Development (2IPD) an index used by the Universal Postal Union to measure the performance of Posts across the globe on dimensions of reliability, resilience, reach, and relevance. Postal operators across the world are faced with inescapable business model disruptions steered by the digital era, and Southern Africa is not an exception. The dawn of the digital age presents both prospects and threats to business models of the industrial age as digitalisation has resulted in a sustained decline of mail volumes as the core business of the postal service for the past 100 years. The substitution of traditional physical mail with electronic alternatives has been a threat that has unsettled the postal service for over two decades. However, the arrival of the digital age has quickened the decline of mail volumes at an unprecedented speed as the digital age diffuses to almost all sectors of society and the digital economy becomes the preferred platform for conducting business.
A constructivist philosophical worldview, an inductive research approach, a Grounded Theory research strategy, and a qualitative methodological choice were adopted for the first phase of the research which was to identify the inhibitors and drivers that are prevalent in the postal sector. System dynamics was adopted as a modelling and simulation approach for the second phase of the research and aimed to conceptualise the interaction of the variables extracted from the insights gained from literature through a Grounded Theory research strategy. The ten dimensions that arose from the exploratory study were digital culture, adoption, customer insights, digital investments, digital ecosystem, operational efficiency/excellence, shared vision, digital capabilities, digital competitiveness, and diverging interests. These dimensions were further synthesized during the development of the system dynamics model, four key stocks emerged that are prevalent in managing digital transformation in the postal sector.
The four key stocks (variables) that emerged were adoption, digital culture, operations capability maturity, and financial performance. The system dynamics approach revealed that the postal sector can be described as a complex phenomenon due to intricate interdependent variables that interact in a dynamic setting. The complex nature of the postal sector is further amplified by multiple feedback systems of non-linear relations. The results of the study point to the complex interaction of these variables that inhibit and drive the digital transformation and competitiveness of the postal sector. It is by grasping these complexities that decision-makers and policymakers could pull the levers revealed by this research to direct the postal sector toward a sustainable future.
The system dynamic model (stocks and flows) was developed and validated with postal industry experts, and the verification and validation processes confirmed that the model outcomes are reliable and reflect the reality of the dynamics prevalent in the sector. The results indicate that the factors that inhibit postal development and sustainability of the sector include poor digital culture, poor adoption of the Universal Postal Union digital ecosystem, and underperforming operations capability and this leads to poor financial performance and unsustainability of the sector in Southern Africa and many developing countries globally.
Different policy design and analysis scenarios were evaluated, and the outcomes of the policy design and analysis revealed that there are vital levers that administrators and policymakers could pull to improve the financial performance and overall competitiveness of the postal sector. The levers include but are not limited to factors such as digital financial payment services offered, support services offered, ePost and eGov services offered, e-commerce services offered, change of Chief Executive Officers in 10 years, unavailability of Enterprise Architecture blueprint, number of staff who attended Train-post courses, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) index, e-Government index, marketing effectiveness, adoption fraction, contact rate, drop out of adopters rate, non-compliance to electronic advance data, compliance to quality of service, operational expenses, rural population, universal service obligation paid, universal service obligation shortfall and other factors.
The study presents a scientific and systemic approach to improve operations capability maturity as measured through the Integrated Index on Postal Development (2IPD) and the financial performance of the postal sector in Southern Africa. The novelty of the new body of knowledge lies in the mathematical equations developed and their application through simulation and scenario analysis to develop a robust solution to improve the business model of the postal sector in Southern Africa through the adoption of a digital transformation agenda and complex policy design. It is noteworthy to point out that the study confirmed the systems thinking principle that “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”. This was evident in the results when the stocks were improved as stand-alone compared to when the improved stand-alone stocks interacted with each other in a dynamic setting. All stocks exhibited solid improvements when stand-alone scenarios were allowed to interact with each other in a dynamic setting.College of Engineering, Science and TechnologyD. Phil. (Industrial Engineering
University of Maine Undergraduate Catalog, 2022-2023
The University of Maine undergraduate catalog for the 2022-2023 academic year includes an introduction, the academic calendars, general information about the university, and sections on attending, facilities and centers, and colleges and academic programs including the Colleges of Business, Public Policy and Health, Education and Development, Engineering, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
Systematic Approaches for Telemedicine and Data Coordination for COVID-19 in Baja California, Mexico
Conference proceedings info:
ICICT 2023: 2023 The 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies
Raleigh, HI, United States, March 24-26, 2023
Pages 529-542We provide a model for systematic implementation of telemedicine within a large evaluation center for COVID-19 in the area of Baja California, Mexico. Our model is based on human-centric design factors and cross disciplinary collaborations for scalable data-driven enablement of smartphone, cellular, and video Teleconsul-tation technologies to link hospitals, clinics, and emergency medical services for point-of-care assessments of COVID testing, and for subsequent treatment and quar-antine decisions. A multidisciplinary team was rapidly created, in cooperation with different institutions, including: the Autonomous University of Baja California, the Ministry of Health, the Command, Communication and Computer Control Center
of the Ministry of the State of Baja California (C4), Colleges of Medicine, and the College of Psychologists. Our objective is to provide information to the public and to evaluate COVID-19 in real time and to track, regional, municipal, and state-wide data in real time that informs supply chains and resource allocation with the anticipation of a surge in COVID-19 cases. RESUMEN Proporcionamos un modelo para la implementación sistemática de la telemedicina dentro de un gran centro de evaluación de COVID-19 en el área de Baja California, México. Nuestro modelo se basa en factores de diseño centrados en el ser humano y colaboraciones interdisciplinarias para la habilitación escalable basada en datos de tecnologías de teleconsulta de teléfonos inteligentes, celulares y video para vincular hospitales, clínicas y servicios médicos de emergencia para evaluaciones de COVID en el punto de atención. pruebas, y para el tratamiento posterior y decisiones de cuarentena. Rápidamente se creó un equipo multidisciplinario, en cooperación con diferentes instituciones, entre ellas: la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, la Secretaría de Salud, el Centro de Comando, Comunicaciones y Control Informático.
de la Secretaría del Estado de Baja California (C4), Facultades de Medicina y Colegio de Psicólogos. Nuestro objetivo es proporcionar información al público y evaluar COVID-19 en tiempo real y rastrear datos regionales, municipales y estatales en tiempo real que informan las cadenas de suministro y la asignación de recursos con la anticipación de un aumento de COVID-19. 19 casos.ICICT 2023: 2023 The 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3236-
Regulatory challenges and implications of the European electronic communications code (EECC) for local mobile communication network business
Regulatory provisions pose legal constraints on deploying mobile communication networks and related services. Local 5G and upcoming 6G networks, particularly those that are independent of the big mobile network operators (MNOs), face new challenges due to the incoherent harmonization and implementation of the regulatory provisions and the standby approach undertaken by many EU member countries. This paper analyses the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) Directive from the perspective of local mobile communication networks by combining business model innovation and legitimacy approaches in an ecosystemic context. Based on the analysis, we recommend regulators focus on terminology, spectrum management, access and interconnection, security and privacy, and competition when enabling local mobile communications business
CLARIN
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying technological infrastructure, the achievements of national consortia, and challenges that CLARIN will tackle in the future. The book is published 10 years after establishing CLARIN as an Europ. Research Infrastructure Consortium
Citizen-centric e-government in the European Union
Monografia powstała jako druga w serii dotyczącej e-administracji – Krakow Jean Monnet Research Papers – w ramach realizowanego przez Katedrę Prawa Europejskiego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego projektu Jean Monnet Module pt. „E-administracja – europejskie wyzwania dla administracji publicznej w państwach członkowskich UE i krajach partnerskich/eGovEU+”. Książka przedstawia analizę wdrożenia i funkcjonowania e-administracji w Polsce i w Europie ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem wpływu technologii informacyjno-komunikacyjnych na działalność administracji publicznej na rzecz obywateli. Monografia ukazuje również zagrożenia związane z transformacją cyfrową administracji oraz konieczność uwzględnienia centralnego miejsca człowieka w tym procesie. Monografia adresowana jest do badaczy zajmujących się administracją, prawem administracyjnym i europejskim oraz do praktyków. Mamy nadzieję, że publikacja poszerzy wiedzę na temat cyfryzacji administracji oraz zachęci do dalszych studiów w tej dziedzinie.The monograph was developed as the second in a series on e-government – Krakow Jean Monnet Research Papers – as part of the Jean Monnet Module project, implemented by the Chair of European Law of the Jagiellonian University entitled “ – European challenges for public administration in EU Member States and partner countries/eGovEU+.” The book presents an analysis of the implementation and functioning of e-government in Poland and Europe, with particular emphasis on the impact of information and communication technologies on the activities of public administration done for the benefit of citizens. The monograph also shows the threats related to the digital transformation of administration and the need to acknowledge the central place of a human in this process. The monograph addresses researchers dealing with administration, administrative and European law, and practitioners. We hope the publication will broaden the knowledge about the digitization of administration and will encourage further studies in this field
CITIES: Energetic Efficiency, Sustainability; Infrastructures, Energy and the Environment; Mobility and IoT; Governance and Citizenship
This book collects important contributions on smart cities. This book was created in collaboration with the ICSC-CITIES2020, held in San José (Costa Rica) in 2020. This book collects articles on: energetic efficiency and sustainability; infrastructures, energy and the environment; mobility and IoT; governance and citizenship
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